Another Pittston Drug Bust Nets 33 More Arrests; Is NEPA Losing the "War on Drugs?" (marriage)

[FightinPhils]

The only problem with legalization of drugs is that public drug use would become common. Imagine taking your kids to the park and seeing junkies shooting up on a bench by the playground....or seeing heroin needles littered on the ground like cigarette butts are now. At least keeping drugs illegal keeps drug use behind closed doors.

[NYRangers 2008]

Originally Posted by MrKrabs

The only problem with legalization of drugs is that public drug use would become common. Imagine taking your kids to the park and seeing junkies shooting up on a bench by the playground....or seeing heroin needles littered on the ground like cigarette butts are now. At least keeping drugs illegal keeps drug use behind closed doors.

I couldn't agree more. We don't need drug use like that to become commonplace. It would just make the problem bigger.

[SifuPhil]

Originally Posted by MrKrabs

The only problem with legalization of drugs is that public drug use would become common. Imagine taking your kids to the park and seeing junkies shooting up on a bench by the playground....or seeing heroin needles littered on the ground like cigarette butts are now. At least keeping drugs illegal keeps drug use behind closed doors.

I don't think it would necessarily work that way...

Look at Amsterdam - pot is legal there, but only in a coffeehouse (or I suppose behind your own doors), but you still get in trouble if you smoke on the street. No reason they couldn't do something like that here - besides, think of the revenue for the police departments, etc. giving out tickets!

Keeping drugs illegal might keep the USE behind doors, but the crime caused by it is VERY visible.

[CHS89]

Originally Posted by NYRangers 2008

I couldn't agree more. We don't need drug use like that to become commonplace. It would just make the problem bigger.

Explain your reasoning behind that statement, please. Wow me with your insight. Ask Mr. Krabs for help, too, since you seem to be in blind agreement. I'm neither agreeing nor disagreeing with you here (or looking to necessarily start an argument, per se) but instead of posting such a simple response, how about putting some actual thought behind it and elaborating on it. Make a point here. How would legalizing drugs make the problem bigger, in your opinion.

[NYRangers 2008]

Originally Posted by CHS89

Explain your reasoning behind that statement, please. Wow me with your insight. Ask Mr. Krabs for help, too, since you seem to be in blind agreement. I'm neither agreeing nor disagreeing with you here (or looking to necessarily start an argument, per se) but instead of posting such a simple response, how about putting some actual thought behind it and elaborating on it. Make a point here. How would legalizing drugs make the problem bigger, in your opinion.

Because if it were legal, more people would have more access to it because they know they could do it without getting arrested for it. People who never tried drugs might experiment with it because of it's legality and then the problem would just get bigger and bigger. Like Mr.Krabs said, people would be shooting up on playgrounds with needles like people smoking cigarettes now.

[CHS89]

Your "logic" is assuming way too much. Making them legal but controlled (decriminalized), much the same way prescription drugs are controlled, will not necessarily lead to open and rampant drug abuse, just like the nonsense at the OCB won't mean that everyone will suddenly be walking around with six-shooters on their hips.

The decriminalized drugs will be controlled, taxed, and available in a much safer environment in safer and purer doses, along the same lines as liquor is controlled now. It will probably lower addiction since money could be used for treatment, it will lower crime because the drugs will be easier to get at a more controlled price, it will be safer because the contents will be consistent, and the money funding a nonsense "war" can be used to do something that actually works.

Believing that decriminalizing drugs will cause everyone to try them and become addicted is catering to worst case scenarios. Alcohol is controlled. Not everyone drinks, right? Legalized drugs would most likely fall into that sort of category.

[loveinbloom]

Originally Posted by CHS89

Your "logic" is assuming way too much. Making them legal but controlled (decriminalized), much the same way prescription drugs are controlled, will not necessarily lead to open and rampant drug abuse, just like the nonsense at the OCB won't mean that everyone will suddenly be walking around with six-shooters on their hips.

The decriminalized drugs will be controlled, taxed, and available in a much safer environment in safer and purer doses, along the same lines as liquor is controlled now. It will probably lower addiction since money could be used for treatment, it will lower crime because the drugs will be easier to get at a more controlled price, it will be safer because the contents will be consistent, and the money funding a nonsense "war" can be used to do something that actually works.

Believing that decriminalizing drugs will cause everyone to try them and become addicted is catering to worst case scenarios. Alcohol is controlled. Not everyone drinks, right? Legalized drugs would most likely fall into that sort of category.

While I agree with most of what you say, the problem with our country is we tend not to mirror systems that work in other countries. I will use national health coverage as an example. Instead of taking a look at all countries that have it and try to improve the areas of weakness that has been found, we reject the whole idea of it.

England is a prime example...their system of national health care is broken so we reject it outright...instead of attempting to blend it into a system that works...ie Germany, why? Taxes is Germany are high to provide national coverage...so we will not even explore it further.

I am not sure of what the driving mentality! It seems as if we as a nation do not want to mirror other countries...could it be linked to our so called sovernity (sp)???? It is truly ashame IMHO, since we have no problem losing our sovernity (sp?) to big business and illegal immigration. Just my buck fifty.

[amf66]

it was not racist. sory if i offend somebody.i just interested to buy a house in the scranton area and i dont want in 20 years to become like some citys in nj.its just business

[Combatbarbie]

everything just needs to be legalized

[ScranBarre]

Originally Posted by Combatbarbie

everything just needs to be legalized

Including same-sex marriage?! Wow! You've really come around 180 degrees!